Oh The Irony

Back in the 30's a certain person named Hitler decided that the Jews were a "problem". He felt that they were not in keeping with what he considered the true "German character". He felt that the Jews were not really German, not really white and perhaps not so human. What did Hitler do? He rounded them up, put them in camps and eventually decided that it would just be better to kill them off.

As a result millions of Jews died. The "western" powers decided to give a piece of land, inhabited by Palestinians (among others) to the Jews as some sort of recompense for ignoring their plight for a while and the state of Israel was born.

You would think that the descendants of folks who had gone through such horrors would know better than to do certain things but their behavior never ceases to amaze those familiar with their history. The latest? African immigrants being rounded up, put in detention centers and eventually deported because they are not white and not Jewish.

At a recent protest fanned by right-wing politicians, one lawmaker described the Africans, known here as “infiltrators,” as “a cancer in our body.” Later, Africans’ stores and apartments were attacked...

The interior minister, Eli Yishai, has vowed to clear the country of all illegal immigrants within three years....

Mr. Netanyahu told his cabinet that Israel was “building holding facilities to house tens of thousands of infiltrators until they can be sent out of the country.”

Oh the irony.